bred new yorker. my whole education, work ethic, ps 161 in brooklyn, to arrive in high school in brooklyn, and nyu, and when i had no money, my parents died when i was a teenager, i had $4,000 to my name. new york rose up, gave me scholarships, both to nyu and i am indebted to new york and its culture. i learn music, i learn the symphony and i learn broadway as well as pop and rock. so i am totally indebted to new york city. i love that allegiance to new york and that history that you have with this. there s really no more special place than central park to celebrate the reopening of the
Can You Feel It is one of
the great disco songs. Now the Jacksons are determined to remind us that it is also one of the great political songs, with its call for âall the colours of the worldâ to unite and tell the âmarching men who are killing their brothersâ that we all share the same blood.
Forty years after first charting, Can You Feel It has been reworked to include clips from speeches by Martin Luther King and Barack Obama, part of a project to expand the bandâs six albums for Epic with remixes and bonus tracks. It makes perfect sense to have MLK and Obama guesting on the song, Tito Jackson says today: âThey are the two best rappers in the world.â Tito and Jackie, the oldest brother, laugh. They are Zooming from Las Vegas, where they both live. Both are youthful and run off high-energy batteries. Tito, whose three sons make up the group 3T, is wearing his customary bowler hat â he says itâs the first thing he puts on when he gets